In the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts at the University of Basra, the PhD thesis entitled (novel biography in Arabic literature) was discussed.
The thesis presented by the student Ahmed Bayan Abdel-Sada included three chapters (Intertextuality and manifestations of narrative identity, counter-memory, power, distance, and ideology, “the ideological dimension in the heterosexual biography novel”).
The thesis sought to answer a set of questions, including what relates to the nature of the material that makes up the heterosexual novel, and what relates to the function it presents, or the purpose for which it was written. The most important of these questions are: What are the distinctive narrative features of this genre, and what are its genre characteristics? How does the text acquire His novelistic identity derives its components from another narrative genre, which is the biography? How does the novelist deal with his historical material, and how much freedom is granted to him? How to study fictional texts based on their historical references? Will the biographical material affect the study of texts culturally?, and other matters. Questions that the study will attempt to answer.
The study arrived at a set of criteria that the reader can use to determine which texts belong to this novel genre. The heterosexual biography novel differs from other types of referential fiction in that it involves two narrative conventions, the first is biographical, and the second is fictional (fictional).
